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The event was part of the "No More Names" bus tour, sponsored by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's group, Mayors Against Illegal Guns.

On Saturday, the group announced a new TV ad featuring Stephen Barton, a recent college graduate and Fulbright scholar, who was shot in the face and neck during the cinema shooting.

In the ad, Barton urges Washington to reform gun laws he calls "dangerously lax and loophole-ridden," the group said. In April, however, the U.S. Senate defeated a compromise plan to expand background checks on firearms sales and a proposal to ban some semi-automatic weapons modeled after military assault weapons.

On Friday, Carlee Soto came to mark the Aurora killings, although she lost her sister five months later. First-grade teacher Victoria Soto, 27, was killed in the elementary school massacre in Newton, Connecticut.

"Every situation is different," Carlee Soto said. "From a movie theater to an elementary school to a church, it's all different. But we all carry the same grief, and we all share the wanting to change our gun laws."

A handful of gun rights advocates peacefully protested the event Friday. One of them, Rob Blancken, said all Coloradans should remember the tragedy.

"It's also a tragedy that a firearm was not allowed to be used inside that theater that may have prevented that tragedy," Blancken said.

The Colorado gunman sprayed bullets into a packed midnight screening of the Batman film, "The Dark Knight Rises." The rampage a year today left 70 people injured.

The city of Aurora scheduled a series of events Saturday, including "healing activities" such as meditation, music, counseling and yoga. Some activities were scheduled for the newly-opened Aurora Strong Community Resilience Center, which is designed to teach trauma coping skills.

James Holmes, 24, is expected to be tried in 2014 for the Aurora shootings. He has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity.